Struggle for Change

By lkr220
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    This authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their lands.
    People involved- President Martin Van Buren, General Winfield Scott
  • First Wave feminism

    First Wave feminism

    Their goal was to open up opportunities for women, with a focus on suffrage. The main goal was securing the right for women to vote.
    People involved- Sojourner Truth, Jane Addams
  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws

    These laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Allowed racial segregation in all public facilities
  • carsile Indian industrial school

    This was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
  • Chinese exclusion Act

    A federal law was signed by President Chester A. Arthur that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
  • Dawes serveralty act

    Dawes serveralty act

    This act regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. This allowed the government to break up tribal lands.
    People involved- President Grover Cleveland
  • naturalization act of 1906

    This act revised the Naturalization Act of 1870 and required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens.
  • great migration

    great migration

    This was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
    People involved- six million African Americans
  • immigration act of 1917

    They tried to restrict immigration by imposing a literacy test on immigrants and creating new categories of inadmissible persons.
  • native american citizenship act

    Citizenship was granted to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
  • buck v. bell

    buck v. bell

    The court argued that imbecility, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness are hereditary and that inmates should be prevented from passing these defects to the next generation.
    People involved-Buck, Bell
  • executive order 9066

    Authorized the evacuation of all people that were a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. This was issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • executive order 9980

    This was the ordering of desegregation of the federal workforce and the military.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
  • Indian Relocation act of 1956

    Law that tried to encourage Native Americans to baically assimilate into the general population.
  • Greensboro Sit-In

    Greensboro Sit-In

    African American students staged a sit-in to protest. This happened at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
    People involved-Joseph McNeil, David Richmond
  • civil rights act of 1964

    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • selma to montgomery marches

    They marched to make sure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote.
  • voting rights of act of 1965

    This outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war.
  • stone wall riots

    Demonstrations that were made by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969
  • second wave feminism

    second wave feminism

    Their goal was to increase equality for women by building on previous feminist gains from the first wave.
    People involved-Stephanie Rothman, Joan Micklin Silver
  • Title IX of two education amendments of 1972

    Law stated that colleges could not exclude women from any activity including sports. They eventually changed it to where women and when are separated in sports.
  • Section 504 of rehabilitation act

    Section 504 of rehabilitation act

    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.
  • education for all handicapped children act

    education for all handicapped children act

    This act guarantees a free, appropriate public education, or FAPE, to each child with a disability.
    People involved-Gerald Ford, and handicapped children
  • Americans with disability act

    Americans with disability act

    Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability
    People involved- Lowell Weicker and Tom Harkin
  • US v. Virginia

    US v. Virginia

    The Court held that VMI's male-only admissions policy was unconstitutional. This was a very important case in history.
    People involved-Justice Clarence Thomas
  • defense marriage act

    defense marriage act

    This act prevented same-sex couples whose marriages were recognized by their home states from receiving the many benefits available to other married couples under federal law.
    People involved- Bob Barr and Don Nickles
  • deferred action for childhood arrivals

    deferred action for childhood arrivals

    Exercise of prosecutorial discretion, providing temporary relief from deportation and work authorization to certain young undocumented immigrants.
    People Involved-Barack Obama, and the children immigrants
  • Obergefell v. Hoggs

    Obergefell v. Hoggs

    This granted the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.
    People involved-Obergefell and Hoggs
  • Bostock V. Clayton country

    Bostock V. Clayton country

    This case was to protect employees against discrimination because they are gay or transgender.
    People involved-Bostock and Clayton county